How to Create a DSL package CD?
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How to Create a DSL package CD?
started by: clivesay
Posted by clivesay on July 03 2004,15:56
Could someone tell me how you would go about creating a package CD of .deb files? This would be used if you wanted to update DSL without an internet connection, a prepackaged .dsl file, or remastering. Say I wanted to have everything for Frozen Bubble together so I could install it to a PC without an internet connection. Would I do an apt-get -d install just like we do for a .dsl file to download the necessary deb files, save to a cd or directory and then do a dpkg -i for each deb file on the pc I want to install the packages on for that program?
I would appreciate some guidance. Thanks
Chris
Posted by ke4nt1 on July 03 2004,16:32
Chris...Sounds like dependency hell to me...
You could copy ALL the .deb files that frozen bubble requires to a CD,
then add the cdrom as a repository in your apt/sources.list
( which you can do for any app, to replace an internet connection )
You can use the command apt-cdrom to do this.
Type apt-cdrom for a list of options
(You will still need the dsl-dpkg.dsl extension installed to do this..)
But then you would end up with an installed app, which is
ok for a HD install, but you'd have to apt-get it all over again
every time you rebooted, for a LiveCD...
Which, is basically, what a repackaged .dsl file is,
without having to do the apt-get install thing again...
If you want to install it to a runnning copy of DSL, without an internet connection,
then why would you NOT want a .dsl file, but a collection of .deb's instead?
What's wrong with having frozen-bubble as a .dsl?
73
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on July 03 2004,16:42
Thanks for the info! Nothing wrong with a .dsl at all. I am just thinking in the short term. The limiting factors are my lack of knowledge in creating .dsl files that I need!
I will be doing ALOT of HD installs in the future! If you haven't seen my early posts I have started a NFP to refurbish PC's for needy kids. I have over 200 pc's right now with a couple hundred more coming soon!! Almost all are PI's and PII's.
That is why I was thinking about creating a CD repository.
Thanks
Chris
Posted by ke4nt1 on July 04 2004,17:18
Well my hopes for a FB.dsl have dwindled....Seems FB requires GL and GLX , both of which seem to use
the XF86 servers, but I'm not finding any data on
running FB in X.. FB keeps wanting libGL..
I did throw together a clone, which is playable.
But it's not FB...
73
ke4nt
Posted by clivesay on July 04 2004,17:32
I'll give it a try. I know that FB works. I have had it installed in DSL and Feather. Maybe I'll play with it a little. Chris
Posted by ke4nt1 on July 04 2004,20:19
Do you have a working copy of frozen-bubble in a distro that uses the xvesa /xfbdev servers?
If you can point me to it, or provide a copy, that would be helpful.
Googling for answers gives me zip.....
Perhaps Frozen-bubble has some syntax that allows it to
run in X or svga, instead of GL/GLX
Installing using the testing or unstable mirrors, it fails to run,
with errors about missing GL libs.
73
ke4nt